H.M.S. Encounter (1902)

H.M.S. Encounter' spent her first six years in Royal Navy service in the Australia Station before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy as H.M.A.S. Encounter on 1 July, 1912.

She was the first ship in the fledgling navy to fire in anger when she bombarded Toma Ridge on 14 September, 1914..

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Claude Lionel Cumberlege, January, 1916 to October, 1916.

See Also

• Wikipedia